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  • image SM Adam volume 1/3

Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/3

Purpose

[12] Design showing a longitudinal section through the concert hall, c1765-68, unexecuted

Aspect

Longitudinal section through the concert hall, showing a wall containing an apse, flanked by winged figures in the spandrels, and with a compartmental semi-dome, divided by bands of fret, and ornamented with octagonal square and circular tablets, and compartments of arabesques, and with the pencil outline of a central arched recess flanked by niches

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Sketch of a Project for Edinbr (in an unknown eighteenth-century(?) hand)

Signed and dated

  • 1765-68
    date range: c1765-68 (see scheme notes)

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (305 x 327)

Hand

James Adam (attributed by Prof A A Tait)

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 53
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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